Lynne Kiesling Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (among other good books) and the subject of several posts here at KP, passed away last week at age 89. Online tributes include Pete Boettke at Austrian Economists and Russ Roberts at Caf? Hayek (note also that Russ categorized his post …
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Lynne Kiesling Ron Bailey’s Hit & Run post, Ant Hills=Brains=Cities, reminded me of some really important, fundamental ideas that tend to get lost as we natter about financial regulation, health care regulation, climate regulation … Emergent orders abound, and occur at all sorts of different scales — molecular, cellular, all the way to complex social …
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Lynne Kiesling Welcome to Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss, authors of Organizations and Markets. Looks to be a very interesting read; I have known Peter for a while and enjoyed his work. Peter has a post on market-based management today inspired by the WSJ profile of Charles Koch over the weekend, and citing the seminal …
Lynne Kiesling Mike Madison finds a great quote about Pittsburgh that invokes thoughts of Jane Jacobs, complete with a book picture and link. He quotes from some reader letters to the Post-Gazette’s architecture critic: Responding to New York architect and developer Stan Eckstut’s observation that Downtown Pittsburgh has too much public open space for a …
Lynne Kiesling One of the themes of post-Katrina punditry has been “why build a city below sea level and between three bodies of water?” Think about the history of the US, or for that matter, the Netherlands. The critical growth occurred at a time when waterways were the primary means of transportation (the 17th century …
Lynne Kiesling Most people who like to observe human action and its inherent dynamism (in tension with some inherent stasism, too) seem to be fascinated by cities. I love cities ? their histories, their energy, their culture, their architecture (and yes, let?s admit it, their restaurants, and shopping). The various neighborhoods in east London are …
Lynne Kiesling Today the Supreme Court hears the oral arguments in the Kelo vs. New London eminent domain case. Bill Steigerwald’s column in today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is an interview with Scott Bullock, the Institute for Justice attorney who will be making the argument for the landowner. Bullock will try to persuade the high court to …
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